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Definition of Order Sarraceniales
1. Noun. Plants that are variously modified to serve as insect traps: families Sarraceniaceae; Nepenthaceae; Droseraceae.
Generic synonyms: Plant Order
Group relationships: Class Dicotyledonae, Class Dicotyledones, Class Magnoliopsida, Dicotyledonae, Dicotyledones, Magnoliopsida
Member holonyms: Family Sarraceniaceae, Pitcher-plant Family, Sarraceniaceae, Pitcher Plant, Family Nepenthaceae, Nepenthaceae, Droseraceae, Family Droseraceae, Sundew Family, Family Roridulaceae, Roridulaceae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Sarraceniales
Literary usage of Order Sarraceniales
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flora of Pennsylvania by Thomas Conrad Porter (1903)
"Droseraceae in Order SARRACENIALES. 157 Stigmas entire. Stamens with united
filaments and no staminodia. ..."
2. Text-book of Botany and Pharmacognosy by Henry Kraemer (1908)
"order Sarraceniales. This order includes several families which are of special
interest because of the fact that the leaves are of peculiar construction and ..."
3. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"order Sarraceniales.—Insectivorous plants. The pitcher-plant family (Sarraceniaceae).
Examples: Sarra- cenia purpurea, the pitcher-plant, in peat-bogs, ..."
4. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"order Sarraceniales.—Insectivorous plants. The pitcher-plant family (Sarraceniaceae).
Examples: Sarra- cenia purpurea, the pitcher-plant, in peat-bogs, ..."
5. Applied and Economic Botany for Students in Technical and Agricultural by Henry Kraemer (1916)
"order Sarraceniales. This order includes several families which are of special
interest because of the fact that the leaves are of peculiar construction and ..."
6. Essentials of College Botany by Charles Edwin Bessey, Ernst Athearn Bessey (1914)
"Order SARRACENIALES. "Insectivorous" plants. Family 82. Sarraceniaceae; 83,
Nepenthaceae. Order GERANIALES. Pistil of several carpels; receptacle usually ..."
7. Flora of Miami: Being Descriptions of the Seed-plants Growing Naturally on by John Kunkel Small (1913)
"Order SARRACENIALES. Insectivorous, usually scapose herbs, with viscid-fluid
secreting tissues. Leaves alternate, various, filiform, or with dilated, ..."
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